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What’s the biggest barrier to business innovation in today’s world?
It’s not lack of opportunity
Big changes in the world mean big opportunities for the companies that can take advantage of them.
What’s the biggest barrier to business innovation in today’s world?
It’s not lack of opportunity
Big changes in the world mean big opportunities for the companies that can take advantage of them.
Successful business intelligence has always been about negotiating the right tradeoffs between the needs of individual business people and the […]
New technologies like Hadoop are reinventing analytics. Most of it isbreakthrough additions to existing analytic systems – and some of it […]
The data says that Hadoop isn’t going to replace your enterprise data warehouse.
Anyone who knows what this photo depicts? Hint: it’s the father of self-service….
What do you find people misunderstand about self-service BI’s concept?
That it’s a very hard thing to define concretely in terms of technology implementation. The underlying business need is a very broad concept that covers a very wide range of different types of technologies and information uses, and that the distinctions between “reports,” “dashboards”, “data discovery,” etc are blurry — and the need for “business information” covers a lot more than what is stored in traditional databases (documents, external news feeds, etc.)
There’s no truly self-service BI solution.
What chance does data have when faced with strong opinions?!
GigaOM Research recently published an interview with database rock star Michael Stonebraker on “the impending battle of the database elephants,” covering his thoughts on the disruption in the database market.
This blog includes the excerpts I thought were most interesting:
Here’s the real business benefit of in-memory processing.
If you are an analytics professional, then cloud analytics is in your future — if you’re not already doing it.
I’ve talked to lots of companies that claim that cloud analytics isn’t for them. But they’re wrong, not least because their marketing department is almost certainly already using some form of cloud analytics today (to track ads or social sentiment).
What will tip people towards using more cloud analytics?
The number of users is the most trusted currency in the cloud. You know that if people pay for a service, then it’s providing something of value. And it gives you an opportunity to understand how people are using the software, see trends, gather benchmark information and turn this into advice and best practices in cloud solutions. This is something we’ve already done with our cloud solutions, and we have created innovative service offerings around best-practice co-innovated with customers and partners, such as social selling, collaborative onboarding, and learning.